Movie Review: Grown Ups- A Thoroughly Unengaging and Repetitive Comedy Attempting a Blatant Delivery of Irony Within its Title
Adam Sandler’s production company Happy Madison has set out to follow his own established 90s formula of comedy, mixing in physical scenarios, gross out humor, and witty one liners that used to work when it didn’t get so tiresomely repetitive. It’s safe to say that after Little Nicky and You Don’t Mess with the Zohan … Read more
Movie Review: Knight & Day- A Summer Action Film That Gets Progressively More Generic but Has Enough Charm from Tom Cruise to Make it Average
Whether you love him or hate him there is no denying that actor Tom Cruise has personality. It seems the limelight can never forgive him for his outburst of craziness on Oprah or for his devoted faith as a Scientologist, but it certainly hasn’t really affected his box office draw. That’s because Tom Cruise possesses … Read more
Movie Review: Toy Story 3- A Riveting and Emotional Ending to a Trilogy That Does More Than Not Dissapoint
When the animation studio Pixar announced they were making a third installment of the beloved Toy Story series there was certainly a feel of a pure business decision meant to put work into a film that they knew would make money. It seemed too safe and therefore the product, meaning the story, could suffer in … Read more
Movie Review: The A-Team – Joe Carnahan’s Frantic Style and Incoherent Script Writing is Slightly Saved by Some of the Charismatic Performances
Whoever thought it would be a good idea to make a film out of a television show that was really a product of its time and place such as the A-Team really hasn’t been paying attention to past attempts made on dated films and television shows. Even Michael Mann’s modernization twist on his own creation … Read more
Movie Review: MicMacs- While a Tad Uneven, Jeunet’s First Film in Five Years is Inventive, Fresh, and Consistent with His Developed Style
French cinema hasn’t been critically popular in the last couple of decades ever since the great French auteurs stopped making films, such as Godard, Truffaut, Melville, and Malle. However, there are always a select few filmmakers attempting to bring their own style, presence, and feeling to the big screen and one of those rare French … Read more
Movie Review: Splice- A Rather Superficial Contemplation on the Ethics of Lab Experimentation from the Director of The Cube
It’s been quite awhile since director Vincenzo Natali had his first minor cinematic success with The Cube all the way back in 1997. Returning to his claim to fame genre of horror Vincenzo is back with a rather monotonous spin on the Frankenstein themed world of modern gene pool splicing. His film Splice, which got … Read more
Movie Review: Get Him to the Greek- The Typical Display of Raunchiness and Vulgar Language That Modern Comedies Depend Too Much On
There might not be the greatest expectations for comedies nowadays considering they all follow the same formula of layered raunchiness, a dash of sentimentality, and loads of obscene language. Director Nicholas Stoller has taken one of his above average characters from the relatively successful Forgetting Sarah Marshall and given him his own feature film, which … Read more
Generation Film’s Top 20 Films of the 80s
20. The Last Temptation of Christ- Martin Scorsese is an immensely spiritual man who thought about joining the priesthood at one point in his life so it would come as no surprise that he would use this personal drive to adapt Nikos Kazantzakis’ The Last Temptation of Christ with the help of heavily catholic screenwriter … Read more
Generation Film’s Top 20 Films of the 90s
20. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas- Adapting Hunter S. Thompson’s extremely subjective novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas was not an easy task but Terry Gilliam finished an extremely successful decade, including acclaims for The Fisher King and 12 Monkeys, by grasping this difficult narrative source with precise interpretation and a psychedelic visual … Read more
